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This project successfully funded on 4th March 2026, you can still support them with a donation.
This project successfully funded on 4th March 2026, you can still support them with a donation.
To take Am I Losing My Mind Or Just My Figure? to new and larger audiences at Edinburgh Fringe 2026 and beyond.
Dear Supporters,
We have some exciting news to share with you!
We are taking our show Am I Losing My Mind Or Just My Figure? to Edinburgh Fringe in August 2026 and are embarking on a fund raising journey to support the production. We aim to build on the show’s success in London earlier this year and take on Edinburgh before a national tour in 2027.
Following a completely sold-out run at the Camden Fringe this year, being selected as ‘Pick of the Camden Fringe’ by the Camden News Journal, receiving numerous 5* and 4* reviews, being awarded an Offies Assessors’ Choice and also being nominated for Best Solo Show by the London Pub Theatre Awards (Finalist), we are now wanting to scale up and take the show to Edinburgh, before taking the show on tour across the UK.
2026 is an important year for this show as it will be the 25th anniversary since its first outing at the Pleasance, Edinburgh and we are looking forward to celebrating its journey with as wide an audience as possible.
The show is a co-production with Hinterland and is being presented under the umbrella of Untethered myself (Genevieve RADA Theatre Lab MA) and Sam’s (AGSM&D, Birkbeck Theatre Directing MFA) newly formed theatre company dedicated to interrogating problematic themes with good humour, physicality and complicité and marks the start of what we both hope to be a long and productive partnership.
It has been almost twenty-five years since the play’s original production premiered at the Pleasance as part of the 2001 Edinburgh Fringe. The solo show was praised for its gentle probing of societal attitudes to pregnancy, intergenerational misunderstanding, relationships and faith. It was awarded four stars in The Scotsman and a transfer to the venue’s London base as part of the ‘Pick of The Pleasance’ with comedian and writer Nick Revell selecting it as part of his pick of the week on BBC Radio Scotland.
“A delicate and wistful reflection on pregnancy, something rarely explored in the theatre" The Stage ★★★★
"One of the braver, more sensitive, and infinitely more memorable shows on the Fringe” The Scotsman ★★★★
Sam and I developed the script and show together earlier this year resulting in a contemporary reworked version that whilst maintaining much of the original play interweaves some of the crises that I (Labuschagne) have experienced as a woman in my late twenties navigating the pressures of an unconventional career, misguided relationships, and the decision to have a child. Capturing the millennial zeitgeist, the play has enabled debate around societal pressures to have children and held space for conversations about complications around pregnancy to be had. It features great music, animated film and is both funny and hopeful.
The play follows Fin, a freelance illustrator working a zero-hour contract as a cycle courier, whose free-spirited and unconventional approach to life is often at odds with the expectations of those around her. Her discovery in her late twenties that she is pregnant leads her to confront her own belief systems and examines the othering of expectant mothers.
Reviews include:
London Pub Theatres ★★★★★
Everything Theatre ★★★★
Theatre To See London ★★★★
London Theatre1 ★★★★
In order to build on our creative endeavour this next phase of our show requires investment. For our shorter and smaller run at Camden Fringe this year, Sam and I personally covered the costs of the show with kind support from friends sponsoring some of the rehearsal room hire, and despite the run being a total sell out we, as is often the case for independent creatives, were left out of pocket. That’s where you come in, with us asking our supporters to help us reach our Edinburgh target of £20,000.
Here’s a ready reckoner to give a breakdown of costs:
Production costs (Venue Hire based on box office split + fringe fees) £10,000
Creatives We would like to be able to pay performer, creative and tech team fairly and ethically £5,000 (based on ITC rates)
Logistics Travel, accommodation, subsistence, general management £4,000
Marketing (Flyers, Posters, Digital, PR) £1,000
What we'd like to offer in return:
£500: 4 x complimentary tickets to see the show in Edinburgh, a poster, a credit in bold in the programme, across digital marketing and 2 x complimentary tickets to the show at any tour venue outside of Edinburgh
£250: 2 x complimentary tickets to see the show in Edinburgh, a poster and a credit in bold in the programme and across all digital marketing
£100: 1 x complimentary ticket to see the show in Edinburgh and a credit in bold in the programme
£50: a credit in bold in the programme
Very much hoping you can support the show and we look forward to seeing you in Edinburgh and beyond!
Funding method
Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made